CUDA 3.0 released! woohoo

Website · Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:58 pm

Way too technical for my artist brain but some of the highlights can be read here:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda ... loads.html

So whats good in 3.0?

Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:19 pm

does this mean i gotta buy a fermi gpu

Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:55 pm

does this also mean that octane is going to use the new cuda 3.0 and does that mean I can also work with octane on my notebook with the nvidia gtx 285m?

sjonsjine

radiance · Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:14 pm

sjonsjine wrote:does this also mean that octane is going to use the new cuda 3.0 and does that mean I can also work with octane on my notebook with the nvidia gtx 285m?

sjonsjine

I will probably release beta2 with cuda 3.0 yes, if all works with it.
No idea about the GTX285M compatibility though.

Radiance

Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:02 am

radiance wrote:
sjonsjine wrote:does this also mean that octane is going to use the new cuda 3.0 and does that mean I can also work with octane on my notebook with the nvidia gtx 285m?

sjonsjine
I will probably release beta2 with cuda 3.0 yes, if all works with it.
No idea about the GTX285M compatibility though.

Radiance

Radiance, 2 weeks ago you said that you wanted to contact nvidia because of the missing GTX 285M drivers? Did you and if yes what was there answer?

Have a nice day, the sun is shining here in Amsterdam, people are drinking there drinks on the terraces, smiling because of spring, the only thing missing is my nvidia driver so that I could work with octane also....

SjonSjine

Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:13 am

Have a nice day, the sun is shining here in Amsterdam, people are drinking there drinks on the terraces, smiling because of spring, the only thing missing is my nvidia driver so that I could work with octane also....

I love Amsterdam so much, makes me want a floating house to build my studio in
And the girls doing bicycle in the summer... wonderfull

Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:42 pm

Sam wrote:
Have a nice day, the sun is shining here in Amsterdam, people are drinking there drinks on the terraces, smiling because of spring, the only thing missing is my nvidia driver so that I could work with octane also....
I love Amsterdam so much, makes me want a floating house to build my studio in
And the girls doing bicycle in the summer... wonderfull

Hi Sam check my photo's on flickr.com, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fready/248184513/

Cheerzzzz!

radiance · Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:55 pm

first of all, now that i'm using cuda 3.0, HDR maps take half the space than before yay

2nd, it will be the default for beta2, including the mac build (which is working ! yay)

Radiance

Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:58 pm

first of all, now that i'm using cuda 3.0, HDR maps take half the space than before yay
2nd, it will be the default for beta2, including the mac build (which is working ! yay)

Double yay !

That's because the HDR take less space in 64bit memory or what ?
Im ready to test the mac build on a fresh snow leopard install

Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:02 am

radiance wrote:first of all, now that i'm using cuda 3.0, HDR maps take half the space than before yay
2nd, it will be the default for beta2, including the mac build (which is working ! yay)

Radiance

Just HDRs, or all image textures, or everything in general takes up less memory? Either way that is very good news for us all.

So does that mean we are all installing new drivers for beta2?